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The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Man commits lewd act

A woman called authorities Feb. 24 evening after a man exposed himself to her outside an Evans tanning salon.

The 30-year-old woman said she was leaving Palm Beach Tan at 4447 Washington Road at about 7:30 p.m. when she saw a man expose himself. She said the man appeared to be about 25 years old with brown hair and a mustache.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Woman sells fake gold bars

An employee of a Martinez jewelry store called authorities Thursday after discovering he had bought a fake gold bar.

The employee of The Gold Shop on Washington Road said that two days earlier, a woman came into the store to sell a Suisse 10-gram gold bar, which she presented in a sealed package. He said the bar had all the appropriate markings and appeared to be authentic. He paid the woman $275 for the gold bar.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Stolen vehicle damages lots

Someone stole a Grovetown man’s truck early Feb. 18 and took it joy-riding, damaging several empty lots.

A deputy was called out to Keesaw Glen in High Meadows subdivision near Grovetown just before 1 a.m. about someone driving a vehicle recklessly and causing damage to several empty lots. The caller described the vehicle as an SUV or truck with ladders on top.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Man won’tfile charges

An Evans man said Monday he didn’t want to file charges against a man he said held him hostage for four days.

The 33-year-old man said that on Jan. 29, he went to the Wal-Mart on Wrightsboro Road in Augusta and was approached by an acquaintance. He allowed his acquaintance to ride with him to Kroger in Evans, where he was convinced to cash a $300 check at the Customer Service desk.